Canada-listed Fura Gems (TSX-V:FUR), a new gemstone mining and marketing company headed by the former COO of Gemfields (LON:GEM), has kicked off initial production at its Coscuez emerald mine in Colombia.The early output of 1,720 carats of emeralds, including 826 carats of top quality ones, was achieved through a bulk-sampling program carried out within eight weeks of the completing the acquisiti...Read More
British Columbia's ministries of environment and energy have issued an environmental assessment certificate to BURNCO Rock Products' 70-hectare sand, gravel and rock mine, located on the northwest shore of Howe Sound.Known as the BURNCO project, the mine sits approximately 22 kilometres southwest of Squamish and on the traditional territories of the Squamish Nation, Tsleil Waututh Nation, and Musq...Read More
Russian miner Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), the world's top diamond producer by output, has unveiled its synthetics detector, aimed at cracking down on dishonest suppliers that mix lab-made stones with mined diamonds.The portable machine, named ALROSA Diamond Inspector, screens polished diamonds and jewellery, identifying synthetics as well as treated stones or simulants.Alrosa expects the detector's rela...Read More
The USGS publish a lot of free data on mineral deposits through their open file reports. These reports often include the source data and spreadsheets.Generic link - https://www.usgs.gov/science-explorer-results?es=Grade+and+Tonnage+ModelsDeposit specific linksPorphyry deposits - link and an older version link Sediment hosted Cu deposits - linkSediment hosted Zinc deposits - lin...Read More
I began sending you messages to buy shares of a tiny craft distilling company I had been researching in late October of last year.I sent out video alerts, as I typically do, summarizing the opportunity and why I felt so strongly that it was a good investment at the time.Eastside Distilling (NASDAQ: EAST) was trading below $4.00 at the time.Hardly any of you listened.Over the course of October and...Read More
FlowWorks, a flexible SaaS offering by Carl Data Solutions Inc. (CSE:CRL), allows for real-time monitoring and analysis of water resources through a centralized dashboardVasudha Sharma | March 21, 2018: A mid-winter thaw and unprecedented rainfall during the month of February caused severe flooding across cities of Southwestern Ontario, as swollen rivers and streams overflowed. The Chatham-Kent...Read More
Tyrants may oppress you. They may lead you into disastrous wars. But they don't demand that you take personal responsibility, that great burden of democracy. And every tyrant worth his salt provides scapegoats for his people's failures: It's never your fault, it's them.Politicians sell victimhood. They convince individuals that nothing is in your control. And in doing so, the politicians seize the...Read More
Via Sovereignman.com'Mrs. F.' was 84 years old the first time she ever went to prison.Her crime? Petty shoplifting. She stole rice, strawberries, and cold medicine.She served her time. Got released. Then shoplifted again so that she'd go back to prison.She's now 89 years old serving out another 2 1/2 year sentence, not too far away from where I am right now, at a women's prison about 60 miles o...Read More
Tyrants may oppress you. They may lead you into disastrous wars. But they don't demand that you take personal responsibility, that great burden of democracy. And every tyrant worth his salt provides scapegoats for his people's failures: It's never your fault, it's them.Politicians sell victimhood. They convince individuals that nothing is in your control. And in doing so, the politicians seize the...Read More
Via Sovereignman.com'Mrs. F.' was 84 years old the first time she ever went to prison.Her crime? Petty shoplifting. She stole rice, strawberries, and cold medicine.She served her time. Got released. Then shoplifted again so that she'd go back to prison.She's now 89 years old serving out another 2 1/2 year sentence, not too far away from where I am right now, at a women's prison about 60 miles o...Read More
FTSE 100 closes up 18 ptsRBS top riser Energy minnows EnQuest, Union Jack Oil and Hurricane Energy all make splashes with trading updatesFTSE 100 closed around 18 points higher as traders sit on their hands a bit and wait for the interest rate decision from the US central bank tomorrow.The UK blue-chip benchmark closed around 18 points, or 0.26% higher, at 7,061, with financial stocks doing w...Read More
Industry heavyweights David Morgan, Rob McEwen and John Kaiser share their thoughts on how high the gold price could eventually go.Read full newsRead More
Algold Resources Ltd. (TSXV:ALG) (the 'Corporation') is pleased to announce that it has raised aggregate gross proceeds of $1,159,960 by issuing a total of 8,285,429 units (each, a 'Unit') at a price of $0.14 per Unit (the 'Issue Price') under its brokered private placement offering of Units (the 'Brokered Offering') and concurrent non-brokered private place...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1310.40-$6.40Silver$16.20-$0.13XAU78.13-0.68%HUI169.21-1.11%GDM594.85-0.78%JSE Gold1066.77+5.10USD90.41+0.54Euro122.46-0.92Yen94.08-0.15Oil$63.40+$1.3410-Year2.887%+0.035T-Bond144.8125-0.71875Dow24727.27+0.47%Nasdaq7364.30+0.27%S&P2716.94+0.15% The Metals: Gold fell $9.60 to $1307.20 at about 10:30AM EST before it climbed back higher into midday, but it still ended with...Read More
- $8.8B Sprott Inc. sees higher gold on massive consumer debt, defaults & bankruptcies - Rising and record U.S. debt load may cause financial stress, weaken dollar and see gold go higher- Massive government and consumer debt eroding benefits of wage growth (see chart)by BloombergRising U.S. interest rates, usually bad news for gold, are instead feeding signs of financial stress among debt-la...Read More
Most of the major markets struggled through Monday, but spent Tuesday morning rallying to try and get back into the green.Read full newsRead More
A loan of $4,800 helped a member to buy more beans, cassava, and maize flour for sale.Read full newsRead More
Radisson Mining Resources Inc.(TSXV:RDS) (OTC:RMRDF) (FRANKFURT:2RX) ('Radisson' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce the release of an updated resource estimate for its 100% owned O'Brien gold project ('O'Brien') located along the Larder-Lake-Cadillac Break ('L-L-C'), halfway between Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or, two mining towns in the Pro...Read More
Graham Lumsden, chief executive of Motif Bio Plc (LON:MTFB, NASDAQ:MTFB), tells Proactive Investors they're taking some additional time over the new drug application (NDA) for iclaprim as they're keen to make the strongest possible submission to the US regulator.The next-generation antibiotic has been developed initially to treat acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections and has successfu...Read More
Ferrum Crescent Ltd's (LON:FCR) executive director Laurence Read talks to Proactive about plans to raise ?1mln to advance its Toral project in northern Spain and a name change to Europa Metals Limited.The funds will be used in three distinct stages, with a drilling programme to start in the summer to look for additional metal along the current strike.A scoping study is also planned to get a rough...Read More